Issues / 2003 / Sep 11
Family Central in North County
Photo: Bang for the Buck: This Oak Hills home is a lot larger and a lot cheaper than typical County properties. Donna and Adam Messer''s North County home is so much bigger than the typical ...
Discspace
Sam Bush and David Grisman Hold On, We're Strummin'Acoustic Disc Sam Bush and David Grisman have always been characterized as consummate rhythm players on their antiquated mandolins. They have a peerless ability to prod a ...
TomatoFest celebrates the stuff of sauces, the backbone of Bloody Marys.
Photo by Randy Tunnell: Juicy Crop: Gary Ibsen shows off some heirlooms. What Concours d''Elegance is to classic cars, so the Carmel TomatoFest is to classic tomatoes. Begun 12 years ago as a backyard garden ...
Foodchain
ALL HAIL THE FOOD NETWORK... Praise the Lord...say Hallelujah...throw yourself on your knees and thank the culinary gods on high...THE FOOD NETWORK has officially landed here in the outback. Channel 35, loud and clear, all ...
Two years on, DLI expects to grow for terror war.
Soldiers dream in Dari up at the Defense Language Institute (DLI). In Afghanistan, a third of the population, or about five million people, mostly in the north, speak Dari. In Monterey, a tiny fraction of ...
Arthur Tress explores childhood fantasies and sexual identity.
Photo: Arthur Tress'' creative photography can be found at Carmel''s Center For Photographic Art. No photographer has examined the dynamic relationship between art and perception with greater insight or inventiveness than Arthur Tress. During his ...
Letters to the Editor for Sep 11, 2003
General Plan is a Work of Art The current state of Monterey County's draft General Plan is about as understandable as a Jackson Pollock painting viewed on a moonless night. In fact, the only difference ...
Squid Fry for Sep 11, 2003
SGT. SQUID...It's official. Squid's a cephalopod in uniform. Squid's got Squid's badge-no gun, though-and Squid's even thinking about growing one of them handlebar mustaches. Yup, it's Deputy Squid to all you civilian mollusks from now ...
The Shane Dwight Band is back at Sly's.
Shane Dwight has no reason to sing the blues. In just three and a half years, the young guitarist and his group have become one of the most popular blues outfits on the West Coast. ...
Cuba's ready for change, but is America ready for Cuba?
Earlier this week, Congress voted on and passed an amendment to a major spending bill that would loosen the ban on US travel to Cuba. Known as the Flake/Delahunt amendment, the Bush administration has threatened ...
8 Days
thursday 9|11 Carmel Republican Women 11:30am. Ben Gilmore, historian and garlic farmer, speaks about the Constitutional crisis in the Alabama Supreme Court. Steve Collins, a candidate for Monterey County 5th District Supervisor also attends the ...
Jessica Williams and Peter Cincotti make separate visits to Carmel this week.
Vintage and Fresh: Legendary and soon-to-be legendary pianists Jessica Williams and Peter Cincotti promise to jazz it up in Carmel. What''s more exciting, experiencing a virtuoso at the peak of her power, or catching a ...
A photographer's walk through the streets of Cuba's capital.
I have always been fascinated by Cuba. Some of my earliest memories of world politics are of the events surrounding the 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion and the following year''s Cuban Missile Crisis. It was ...
Blinded by the Light: One week at Burning Man-a lifetime of dust.
Photos by Catrina Coyle and Kevin Jewell: Rave On: The Mutaytor bus, the Man burns, the Temple of Honor. I went to Burning Man last week and came home with my bags full of dust ...
After two years, the victims of the war on terror are not terrorists.
It''s September 11-do you know where John Ashcroft is? It''s been two years since America was attacked by al Qaeda terrorists wielding box cutters. Two years since George W. promised to "smoke ''em out," make ...
Hotpicks
thursday 9|11 Hay! Come To Cabaret! HAY FEVER AND CABARET OPEN Barbara Babcock, Emmy award-winning actress of "Hill Street Blues" fame, performs in Pacific Reperetory Theater's preview of Noel Coward's Hay Fever tonight. The comedy ...
Cadillac Angels roots-rock Viva.
Tony Ridge found his favorite guitar in a trash can inside a Santa Barbara music store. Ridge says he named the guitar Frankenstein "cause it''s one of those things we brought back to life." Frankenstein ...
Alan Rudolph's new drama examines the cavities and decay of a married couple's life, and the fantasies that come between them.
Photo: Open Wide: Campbell Scott and Hope Davis struggle through infidelity in The Secret Lives of Dentists. Dentistry doesn''t really have anything to do with the secret lives on display in Alan Rudolph''s domestic drama, ...
Artifacts
MUSEUM AND CSUMB COLLAB...This week's new HUNG LIU painting exhibit at the MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART'S CIVIC CENTER marks a first-time collaboration between the museum and CSU-MONTEREY BAY'S DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL AND PUBLIC ART. Chinese-born ...
Breaking Up is Easy.
Our Story Thus Far: Three months ago, when County Supervisors appointed the so-called Refinement Committee to look at the General Plan, consensus seemed doable-even likely. Policy makers and pundits alike were able to suspend disbelief ...
Let's Do The Time Warp: Asked at Monterey Peninsula College
Q: If you could go back in time to any era, where would you go and why? FOLLOW UP: What is the most exotic place you've ever been? Devia Freelon Student | Seaside A: The ...
